Improvement in confluent pipes for baths



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HENRY JONES, 0F PHILADELPIHA, PENNSYLVANlAl Letters Patent No. 101,884, dated April 12, 1870.

INIPROVEMENT IN CONI' LUENT PIPBS FOR BATES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

I, HENRY JONES, of Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented an Attachment to Bath-.room Cocks, of which the following` is a specitication.

Nature and Object of the I nrcntion.

My invention consists ot'ia valve, arranged in the manner described hereafteuwithm the communicating pipe between the two v. lehests ot' a bath-room cock, in .respect to the sliower-ln'anch, and tothe branch tliroigh which ille water is discharged into tle bath-tub, so that, by a simple movement ofthe valve, the water can be directed to the shower-pipe oi' the bath-tub,

Description of the Accompanying/ Drawing.

Figure 1 is .a front view, partly in section, ol' a bathrooln cock with my improvement;

l Figure 2 a plan view ofthe same, partly in section, and

Figure 3 a vertical section on the line 1 2, fig. 2.

General Description.

A and A are two branches, one being connected to the hot, and the other to the cold-water pipe, as usual.

Each branch isprovided in front with a valve-chest, a, and the two chests are connected together by a tube, B.

In the present instance each chest has a valve, b, adapted-to a seat,d, and operated by the screw-spindle, e, in a manner too welll understood by those t'amiliar with the constructiouvof faucets to need explanation here.

It should he undelstood, however, that any valve or tapering plug, by operating which water' may be permitted to pass from either ofthe branches A or A' into the tube B, or excluded from the latter, may be used in connection with my improvement.

On the tube B, midway between the opposite valvechests, is a stuffing-box, f, through which passes a spindle, D, the latter being provided with a valve,nh, adapted to a seat, t', formed where the tube B communicates with the vertical outlet-brauch E.

A horizontal branch, F, alsopmjcet-s from the tube B, and to this branch is connected-the pipe for the shower-bath.

As long as the valve remains elevated, as shown in fig. 1, there is a free communication between both valve-chests and the branch E, so that, by adjusting` thc valves, either hot or cold water or a mixture ot' both can be discharged from the said branch into the bath-tub without passing upward through the showerpipe, although thc communication between the showen branch F and the tube B is exposed to the water passing through the pipe B to the discharge-branch E.

0n depressing:r the valve h to its seat, however, and thereby closing the said discharge-branch, whatever water is admitted to the tube B must ascend in the shower-pipe.

It will now be seen without iin-ther description that by this simple arrangement of' the valve h within the tube B', hot or cold water, or both, can be directed either into the bath-tub or to the shower-pipe.

It should be understood that the packing in the stutiing-boxfshould be screwed down and caused to embrace the valve-spindle D so tightly thatit will be self-retaining in its elevated position.

In place of the valve h with its plain spindle, a valve may be so constructed and arranged within the tube B as to be operated by a screw-spindle; in fact, it is immaterial what description of valve is used, or how it is operL tcd, providing it is arranged to close or expose the communication between the tube B and vertical branch E, as described.

Claim A valve, h, arranged in the communica-ting tube between the valve-chestsot" a bath-room cock, in respeet to the vertical branch 1'] and shower-brauch F, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HERY JONES.

Witnesses:

FRANK B. Rlcnlluns, HARRY SMi'ln. 

